A New Blog

Well, friends and family. It finally happened. We ran out of room on our blog. Never fear, we've created a new one!

You can find our new blog by clicking here or by pasting this address into your web browser: http://jameyandjack.blogspot.com/

Our new blog "The Adventures Continue" is still a work in progress. Please feel free to visit, and thanks for being patient as we get things moved to the right spots. As for this blog (our now old blog), we'll leave it up and running. Mom wants to be able to peek back at our old adventures.

Remember to head on over to our new blog. There are pictures of our visit to the botanical gardens!

Projects and Penguins

Between packing up our house, going to Colorado, and coming back to our pretend house which contains just half our stuff, Mom got behind on some projects. She's been trying to catch up at naptimes, but today she realized she needs more time. So we played together with Mom all morning, and then this afternoon Mom asked Jack and me if we could play by ourselves.

We agreed, so Mom sewed some stuff...

...while Jack and I played Naked Penguin. I assured Mom that penguins do not wear clothes and that only people wear shirts and shorts as I was taking mine and Jack's off. Here's Penguin Jack climbing up an "ice rock".

And here I am swimming on my belly in the ocean. Can you see my flippers flapping?

It was a good afternoon. Mom got lots done while Jack and I had fun.

iPhone Store

These pictures are from a couple of days ago. I guess we forgot to post them...

Anyway, this was the day Jack and I decided to play iPhone store. We used our helmets for shopping carts and the box for the display case. We slid our plastic envelopes back and forth until we each had the phone we wanted.

Then we made a couple of calls. Jack called Grandpa Jere and Cousin Noah.

I called Grandma Lou, Grandma Carolyn, and Charlotte.

We're silly kids who want to be just like our Dad!

Two Packages

After a visit to the cafe (we did puzzles while we sipped our juice), we headed up to the campus post office to collect our mail.

We found two packages! Package number one contained airplanes from Great-Mom-mom.

We played airport right away. "Coming in for a landing..."

The second package was for Jack. Cousin Lilly sent him a huge picture (which we taped to the wall right away) and some crayons.

Those crayons might be the neatest thing ever! The rest of you may already know about Crayola Twistables Slick Stix, but we are behind the times. (Please excuse the shameless product plug!) They are the perfect thing for Jack. He often has a hard time with crayons because he doesn't understand how much pressure it takes to actually draw a line. Too hard breaks the crayon, and too soft means no line. Well, these Slick Stix are great! The bright colors just slide right onto the paper. Thanks, Lilly! Jack loves his picture and crayons!

We Tried

We tried. We gave it our best effort.

We thoroughly enjoyed the time we spent outside in Colorado this summer. We came home wondering if we just tried hard enough, could we learn to love the great outdoors of Arkansas? In spite of her personal feelings, Mom sees to it that Jack and I have lots of playtime outside most every day. We ride our scooters around campus, we go to parks to swing and slide, we take long walks downtown, and we play in the water table on our patio. But we don't really get out into "nature". We thought that today, Labor Day, would be the perfect day to explore the nature that Arkansas has to offer.

We checked online, found a National Park with a lake, packed a picnic, and headed out. We planned to spend the whole morning there playing and appreciating nature. We stayed for 30 minutes.

Sure it looks pretty, but looks can be deceiving! The air was sticky and humid (thank goodness it was only 79 degrees). The grass was super wet and wasn't going to dry any time soon because the air was so sticky. The bugs were out in full force. The lake water was murky, murky, murky, and the "beach" was mud. We tried to make the best of it, but it was just downright hard! Mom saw some showers and thought perhaps we would be okay in the end if we had a chance to get "de-bugged" and "de-mudded" by rinsing off, but then she saw the "problem with showers" sign. And on top of everything, we missed the part on the website about dogs not being allowed. Poor Norah was stuck in the car! (With the windows rolled down, of course.)

Shoes soaking wet from the grass, we headed up to the swings.

Apparently today wasn't a swinging day for Jack.

The tire swing was fun. I got all dizzy and giggly.

We decided to leave. We headed home to have our picnic in the park by our house. Sure the humidity, bugs, and wet grass were there, too. But in addition, there were sidewalks and a shaded picnic area! We had a nice time picnicking and playing together with Norah.

Now we're wondering just what our deal is. We truly do like the outdoors. The outdoors out west, that is! We seem to have a hard time getting past humidity, bugs, and murky water. What to do, what to do? We can't help the fact that our veins are filled with western blood. Do you think we could get a trade somewhere?

We might give this particular National Park another try later this fall. We think if we go some afternoon when it's cool, we might be okay. We'll have to see...

At least we tried.